Thursday, November 30, 2006

Today in History - 1954

Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama becomes the only person of record to have been hit by a meteorite. She was napping on her living room couch when a grapefruit-sized meteoroid crashed through the roof of her house. It bounced off her large wooden console radio, destroying it, and struck her on the arm and hip. She was badly bruised but able to walk.